Seattle-based MCG Health, LLC (“MCG”) provides patient care guidelines to providers and health care plans. According to a notice on their website that was also issued as a press release yesterday, on March 25, 2022, they determined that an unauthorized party had previously obtained personal information about some patients and members of certain MCG customers….
Category: Breach Incidents
Shoprite Group issues warning on ‘suspected data compromise’ (UPDATED)
TimesLive reports: The Shoprite Group said on Friday evening it had become aware of a suspected data compromise, including names and ID numbers, which may affect some customers who engaged in money transfers to and within Eswatini and within Namibia and Zambia. “Affected customers will receive an SMS to the cell number supplied at the…
Data breach lawsuits settle: UPMC vendor and a holding company for department stores
Two potential class action lawsuits involving data breaches have reportedly settled. One awaits final approval in October, but the other settlement is already final. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center data breach $450K class action settlement During April to June 2020, Charles J. Hilton PC (CJH), a firm hired by UPMC for billing services, allegedly suffered…
Personal and sensitive files from Tehama County Social Services leaked on dark web. Have the victims been notified?
On their dark web blog, Quantum threat actors claim to have acquired 32 GB of files from Tehama County Social Services in California. Quantum describes the files as involving information of county clients and employees: Financial information, budgets, fiscal docs, contracts, HR data, resumes, payrolls, clients personal data, scans ID, scans SSN, personal info, scans…
Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine alerts patients to ransomware attack while continuing to provide care
Yesterday, Hive threat actors added Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine to their leak site, with a notice that they had encrypted the entity on May 20. They also provided some files as proof. But if Hive hoped this would pressure the multi-location medical entity, they seem to have misjudged their Indiana-based victim. On the homepage…
AU: Researcher finds ACY Securities leaking 60 GB of User Data
ACY Securities describes itself as one of Australia’s fastest growing multi-asset online CFD trading providers. But as first reported by HackRead, the trading firm was leaking 60 GB of user data until independent researcher Anurag Sen persisted in trying to alert them to a misconfigured elasticsearch database. As seen by Hackread, the data included personally…